Joint 118th Annual Cordilleran/72nd Annual Rocky Mountain Section Meeting - 2022

Session No. 30
Wednesday, 16 March 2022: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
WRI 148 (UNLV Wright Hall)

T9. Battery and Energy Metals: Mineral Potential of the Southwestern USA

 

Simon Jowitt and Brian McNulty, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
BATTERY AND ENERGY METALS: SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF COBALT, GALLIUM, GERMANIUM, GRAPHITE, INDIUM, LITHIUM, MANGANESE, PGES, REES, AND TELLURIUM IN THE WESTERN USA
MAUK, Jeffrey, KARL, Nick, RINGER, Amanda, BOARDMAN-LARSON, Emma, FUNK, Jonathan, SAN JUAN, Carma A. and VAN GOSEN, Bradley S., USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, P.O. Box 25046, MS 973, Denver, CO 80225
1:55 PM
A NEW CENTURY FOR NICKEL? ASSESSING RESOURCES, RESERVES AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE DEVIL'S METAL
JOWITT, Simon, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010 and MUDD, Gavin M., Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
2:15 PM
THE GEOLOGY AND POTENTIAL OF UTAH’S SEDIMENT-HOSTED URANIUM-VANADIUM DEPOSITS IN THE AGE OF CRITICAL MINERALS AND CARBON NEUTRALITY
MILLS, Stephanie, Energy & Minerals Program, Utah Geological Survey, 1594 West North Temple, Suite 3110, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
2:35 PM
PETROGENESIS AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF AN EVOLVED RHYOLITE, THE BLAWN FORMATION, SOUTHERN WAH WAH MOUNTAINS, UTAH
BARKOFF, Drew, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154
 
2:55 PM
Break
3:10 PM
ASSESSING THE GEOLOGIC CARBON (CO2) SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL OF MULTIPLE SUBSURFACE TARGETS IN THE IRON SPRINGS DISTRICT, IRON COUNTY, UTAH
SZYMANSKI, Eugene, MS, PhD, PG1, VANDEN BERG, Michael1, MOODIE, Nathan2, JAGNIECKI, Elliot1, HARDWICK, Christian1, JENSEN, Austin1, HURLBUT, Will1 and SMITH, Kayla1, (1)Department of Natural Resources, Utah Geological Survey, 1594 West North Temple, Suite 3110, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (2)The University of Utah, Energy & Geoscience Institute, 423 Wakara Way, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
3:30 PM
MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VIRGIN MOUNTAIN PEGMATITE FIELD, NEVADA-ARIZONA
MCCAFFREY, Dalton, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010
3:50 PM
THE CLAY MINERALOGY OF SEDIMENTARY LITHIUM DEPOSITS
EMPROTO, Christopher, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, BENSON, Thomas, Lithium Americas Corporation, New York, NY 10001 and SIMON, Adam C., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
4:10 PM
Concluding Remarks
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